UNH Athletics Named Host of Three Upcoming NCAA Tournaments

INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA awarded 523 host sites for
82 of its 89 championships spanning the 2014-18 seasons on
Wednesday and the University of New Hampshire was named host of the
2015 Men’s Ice Hockey Northeast Regional, 2016 Women’s
Frozen Four and 2017 Skiing Championship.

In addition, the NCAA announced
Hockey East will host the 2015 Men’s Frozen Four at the TD
Garden in Boston.

"We are delighted to receive the
news that we will be hosting these NCAA championships,” said
Marty Scarano, UNH Director of Athletics. “I think it's a
great tribute to the hard work of our staff and coaches here at
UNH, and certainly the management at the Verizon Wireless Arena in
Manchester.

"We've hosted these championships
before, and I am absolutely confident that we will continue to do a
great job hosting these coveted events again," Scarano added.

The 2015 season will mark the sixth
time UNH hosts a men’s ice hockey regional at Verizon
Wireless Arena in Manchester, N.H.; the event was previously at
that venue with the Wildcats as host in 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2011
and 2013. New Hampshire has advanced to the regional at Verizon
Wireless Arena each of the previous five occasions.

The Women’s Frozen Four will
be held at the University’s Whittemore Center for the third
time since the NCAA began sponsoring a women’s ice hockey
championship in 2001. UNH was the site of the 2002 Frozen Four and
the Wildcats became the first school to host the event twice when
the championship returned to Durham in 2005.

UNH will host the NCAA Skiing
Championship for the fifth time when the event returns to the state
of New Hampshire for the ninth time overall in 2017. The Wildcats
also served as host of the NCAAs in 1984, 1992, 1995 and
2007.

“We really want to thank
everyone who put in a bid,” said Mark Lewis, NCAA executive
vice president of championships and alliances. “The
competitiveness of the bids made it extremely difficult for the
sport committees to select sites as there just weren’t spots
for all of the great bids we received. Ultimately the sites that
were selected will provide our student-athletes, coaches and fans
the best experience possible.”

The new NCAA championship bid
process creates the largest host site announcement ever, spanning
82 championships across a four-year cycle. Previously, selection
announcements varied by sport. This process now gives the NCAA and
host sites more time to plan each championship
experience.

Bidding for 82 of 89 NCAA
championships began in July and 1,984 bid applications were
submitted. Each sport committee, per division, selected the host
sites it believed would provide the ultimate experience for the
respective student-athletes, resulting in 523 total championship
event sites awarded.